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J. A. NORTON. CORN HARVESTING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 24, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. NORTON, OF VAIL, IOl/VA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN A. STONE,OF SAME PLACE, AND HUGH LANGAN, OF CENTREVILLE, DA-

KOTA TERRITORY.

CORN-HARVESTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,728, datedSeptember 24, 1889.

Application filed May 5, 1885. semi No.164/l27. (in model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. NORTON, of Vail, in the county of Crawfordand State of Iowa, have invented cert. in new and useful Improvements inCorn-Harvesting Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form part of thisspecification. v

This invention has relation to certain improvements in corn-harvesters.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved machine of theabove class which will cut the stalks so that they will fall parallel tothe line of draft and can be conveyed across the machine transversely tothe line of draft to a pair of husking rollers carried by a peculiarframe to prevent clogging or choking of the rollers; also, to provideseparate means for conveying the ears and stalks. These objects areaccomplished by and my invention consists in certain novel features ofconstruction and combinations of parts more fully described hereinafter,and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe machine, looking toward the right-hand side of the same, as shown inFig. 2. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine, the elevator-troughnot being shown, to prevent confusion of parts. Fig. 3 is atop plan,dotted lines showing the ribbed husking-roller, the cross-bar of theelevator-frame being removed. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the ribbedhusking-roller. Fi 5 is a detail elevation of the yoke or b u frame inwhich the husking rollers are mounted.

In the drawings, the reference-letter A indicates the main rectangularsupportingframe of the machine,consisting of side beams and end sills.

The main driving and supporting Wheel 13 is provided with a gear 0,meshing with and driving a pinion I), mounted on a short shaft a, alsoprovided with a beveled gear Z2, which beveled gear 1) transmits motionto the cutting apparatus through the medium of a shaft E, journaled inthe frame and provided with a bevel-gear c, on one end meshing with gearI) and on its opposite end with a sprocketwheel F, having a crank-pinfproj ecting from its face and connected with the sickle or cutter-bar gof the cutting apparatus by a pitman h and knuckle-joint h, the cuttingapparatus being preferably located in the front left-hand corner of themachine.

An upright yoke or elongated frame I is longitudinally located along thecentral portion of the machine and extends a distance beyond the rearend of the same, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and consists of thelongitudinal bars I 1 secured together at their ends by the vertical endbars 2" 2 The lower bar 1 is immediately secured upon the frame, whilethe bar I is supported a distance above the beam 1 by the end bars 114?. A cylindrical husking-roller J is mounted in the yoke, immediatelyabove the lower bar I thereof, and at its rear end the roller isjournaled in a post 2, secured to and extendin g up from the beam 1 andits front end is journaled in the end bar 'i ,and the journal isextended through said bar, and provided upon its outer end with asprocket-wheel a, driven by the wheel F through the medium of asprocketchain F. Another h risking-roller 'i is located in the yokeparallel with and a distance above the cylindrical roller J, and isprovided upon its outer periphery with radial ribs '21. These ribs arepreferably four in number and arranged in pairs, the ribs of one pairbeing located on diametrically-opposite sides of the roller andextending a portion of thelength of the same, the other pair of ribsextending from the ends of the first-mentioned ribs toward the opposit-eend of the roller 'and are oppositely located to each other and in aplane at right angles to the plane of the first-mentioned pair. Theroller 5 is journaled at its rear end in an arm 1, secured to andprojecting down from the bar 1 above the post 2, but of such length asto leave a space between them, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 5, andthe other end of the roller is journaled in the end bar 1' and extendsthrough the same, and is provided with a gear Z, meshing with a gear Zon the journal of roller J, as clearly shown in Fig. 2,the gear Z beingmounted upon the shaft of the roller J, between sprocket-wheel a and endpost F. It will thus be seen that the husking-rollers are actuated bythe gear Oto rotate in opposite directions through the medium of'thegearing before described.

A supplemental driving-wheel Gis mounted upon a short arm G, dependingfrom the side of the main frame opposite that upon which the main wheelB is located, and is braced by a bar G secured to said arm G and themain frame, and a sprocket wheel on is secured upon the hub of saidwheel G.

A reel P is mounted above the cutting apparatus in a vertical post P,extending upwardly from the main frame, and the reelshaft is providedwith a sprocket-wheel q.

A shaft H extends transversely through and is journaled in the frontportion of the mainframe, extending below and on each side of thehusking-rollers. This shaft carries and actuates the ear-conveying apron02, operating in a trough n', extending in a plane beneath and parallelwith the right-hand side of the husking rollers. The opposite end of theapron is supported by a roller in the other end of the trough. Thisear-conveying apron discharges into the lower end of a similar trough r,sufficiently elevated at its outer end to drop the ears into a wagon orother vehicle, and a carrying-belt '7' travels in the trough and isactuated by the bevel-gear 10, mounted on the end of the shaft ofhuskingroller J, and meshing with bevel-gears on one end of a shortvertical shaft 8, journaled on beam 1 and at its lower end provided witha bevel-gear f, meshing with a bevel-gearq) on the end of the shorthorizontal shaft o, driving the conveyor-belt r, and upon which shaftthe lower end of the conveyer-belt is mounted.

A trough 0', formed on one side by the upright piece A, secured to andextending between the end bars of the main frame A, and

on the opposite side by the bar I and roller J, is located in theopposite side of and parallel with the husking-rollers from the earconveyer-trough n, and contains a stalk-conveying belt 0, mounted at itsfront end upon and driven by the shaft H, and at the opposite end of thetrough the belt 0 is mounted upon a roller, as usual.

A pair of bars I), at opposite ends of the machine, extend inwardly andupwardly toward the husking-rollers from the side beamof the main frameupon the same side as the cutting apparatus, and are supported at theirinner ends by posts 11 secured to platform k and a pair of rollers 70are journaled at their opposite ends in these bars parallel with eachother and with the cylinder huskingroller, and the rollers are solocated that the distance between the same is equal, or nearly so,withthe distance between the roller 70 and roller J, and two series of belts7c are mounted upon and connect the rollers lo, 70 and J, one seriesconnecting the rollers 10 and k and the other series connecting roller70 and roller J. The cylinder husking-roller and the rollers k k arepreferably grooved, as shown at 70, to receive the belts It, so that thebelts will not be injured by the ears and stalks. By reason of theupward continuation of the bars I) the belts 76 slope upwardly towardthe husking-rolle-rs, and the belts 7c and the rollers upon which theyare mounted are actuated so as to constantly move upward toward thehusking-rollers by the roller J.

The main frame is provided with a flooring k beneath the belts 7c.

As the machine is moved forward along a row of standing corn the cuttingapparatus, operated as described, will sever the stalks and the reelwill throw the same rearwardly and in the line of draft upon the endlessrevolving belts 70. These belts will convey the stalks laterally up tothe husking rollers, which are constantly revolving inwardly toward eachother in opposite directions, and thereby the stalks will be drawn inbetween the rollers, and as the same revolve the ribs upon the upperroller will impinge upon the ears and separate them from the husks. Theears will then drop into the trough n upon the belt a and be conveyed tothe belt 7', and up the same to a wagon or other vehicle, and the stalksand husks will pass between the rollers and fall into the troughcontaining the stalk-conveyer O, which will convey the stalks to therear end of the machine. are longer than the husking-rollers willreadily pass between the same without bending and clogging, as the endsof the stalks when longer than the rollersor when bent are lifted by therear end of the frame I and pass through the space between the arm I andpost 2 as the ears are being removed and husked, and in order to allowthe passage between the rollers of extra large stalks, &c., withoutclogging or choking the upper bar I is somewhat elastic or flexiblewhere the arm I is secured to allow Stalks that a slight upward spring,and thereby allow the rollers to separate slightly when under sufficientpressure.

The elevator-belt r and its trough are supported by a frame 0, whichalso prevents permanent springing of the bar I of the yoke I, and thisframe consists of bars 0 secured to the outside bar of the main frame atopposite ends of the same and extending in an in-, clined positionupwardly over the Wheel B,

and at their upper ends connected by a crossbar a and provided with theinclined bars 0 secured to the cross-bar c or to the upwardlyinclinedbars and extending downwardly and secured to the bar I. C is such (byreason of the size of the bars 0 and the inclined position of said barsand the bars 0 thatit allows slight upward spring of the central portionof the bar I, but prevents it from permanently bending. 7

The form of this frame,

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a corn-harvesting machine, the combination, with the cuttingapparatus, of the conveying-belts, the roller provided with grooves forthe reception of said belts, the upper bushing-roller having ribs suchas described at intervals of its periphery, and the elongated frame-barshaving bearings for the rear ends of said roller-shafts, said bars beingarranged to yield, for the purpose set forth and described.

2. In a corn-harvesting machine, the combination of the elongatedframe-bars arranged to yield near their center, with the ribbedbushing-roller and a smooth basking-roller, both having bearings nearthe center of said yielding bars, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a combined corn harvesting and husking machine, the combination ofthe sickle, an endless-belt platform immediately in the rear of thesickle, bushing-rollers arranged at right angles with the sickle and inaplane transverse to the movement of said belts, and

the yielding frame carrying said huskingrollers, as set forth.

4:. The combination, in a corn harvesting and husking machine, with thehusking-rollers, of the yielding-frame bars provided with bearings forsaid rollers and having a passage between them for the stalks, wherebythe rollers can yield for the passage of large stalks, as and for thepurpose described.

5. The combination, in a corn-harvester, of the sickle, the belts orchains, the yielding frame-bars, husking-rollers, the aprons forconveying away the corn ears and stalks, respectively, said aprons beingparallel to each other and at right angles to the cornstalk receivingand feeding belts or chains, all operating together as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. NORTON.

Witnesses:

O. E. DUFFY, M. P. CALLAN.

